Ningbo International Trade and Its Influence on Economic Growth

DOI

10.2991/emcm-16.2017.255How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ningbo international trade; Economic growth; Trade competitiveness index;Trade structure

Abstract

As a coastal city, Ningbo is the main force to participate in the one belt and one road initiative. This paper analyzes the current situation of Ningbo international trade in aspect of composition of trade commodity, geographical distribution, the competitiveness of electromechanical and high-tech products. Based on 6 county-level cities panel data during 2005 to 2014, this paper also empirically studies the impact of trade on economic growth. The results demonstrate that Ningbo international trade has increased rapidly since 1985, its export or import market mainly concentrate in developed regions or close to Ningbo city, Ningbo exports labor intensive products and imports technology intensive ones, electromechanical products have stronger competitiveness. The empirical results prove a positive and significant impact of trade on economic growth.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Zhixiong Gao
AU  - Jing Peng
AU  - Shanbo Ma
PY  - 2017/02
DA  - 2017/02
TI  - Ningbo International Trade and Its Influence on Economic Growth
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 7th International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Medicine (EMCM 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 503
EP  - 511
SN  - 2352-538X
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DO  - 10.2991/emcm-16.2017.255
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